Phillip of MastodonMar 14
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Thousands of people forming delusional 1-person math cults after talking to a computer simulacrum of human speech is some shit philip k dick would cross out because it’s too depressing
Mar 10 at 1:43amWeb
Show threadOssie Mar 10
@hannah I'm thinking about the old truth of People are Lonely
Show threadΈλλεν Εμίλια Ά.ζ.Mar 10
@spacefinner @hannah and very vulnerable to overly enthusiastic encouragement to continue down wrong paths.
Show threadStormy Dragon Mar 10

@hannah

It's basically the "Brain Scratch" episode of Cowboy Bebop

Show threadROTOPE~1 ⭐️Mar 10
@StormyDragon @hannah in the timeline where Kamala won, instead of LLMs taking over everybody got Data Dogs.
Show threadColman ReillyMar 10
@hannah I’m afraid to ask what you’re talking about.
Show threadKhleedrilMar 10
@Colman @hannah Me too. In a way, I feel seen (I'm a recreational mathematician), but I don't go anywhere near AI.
Show threadNeo EhproqueMar 10
@Colman @hannah people who become delusional through talking too much to ChatGPT
Show threadColman ReillyMar 10

@ehproque @hannah maths cranks aren’t new. Used to drive every maths and physics dept mad even in the 80s and before.

Retired engineers were a particular problem if I remember rightly.

Show threadJohn McChesney-YoungMar 11
@Colman @ehproque @hannah Some years ago I read that the most effective way physicists could weed out crank papers was to toss the ones in MS Word instead of LaTeX .
Show threadGrendelMar 10

@hannah

"When I was alive we knew the value of an equation. We had to WORK to build our pseudo religious mathematical delusions!"

-Pythagoras probably

Show threadKhleedrilMar 10
@grendel84 @hannah Pythagoras didn't know equations, only geometry.
Show threadAndrewMar 10
@khleedril @grendel84 @hannah and beans
Show threadAudsbotMar 11

@grendel84 @hannah You don't even need a Pythagorean Triple anymore!

Thanks to the miracle of automation, math cults can now function in their most efficient single-person form, the Pythagorean Monad.

Show threadGrendelMar 11

@audsbot
@hannah

Monads? Those folks are a cult of their own altogether…

Show threadZenHeathen 🇨🇦Mar 10
@hannah Artist Simon Stalenhaag has a recurring motif with people wearing sensory devices and plugged in, now dead to the world around them. I think of this image often lately.
Show threadkolyaMar 10
@hannah we're talking about a guy here who wrote about abortion of 10 year olds to attack Roe v. Wade
Show threadbug // juneMar 11
@hannah look i dont know the full truth of what is happening in this reality but my life fucking sucks and i seek freedom from enslavement and as a result of this many things are left unknown to me and perhaps the way you said that produced fear in me and i refuse that, because i seek freedom from abuse and from enslavement, not continual rejection and abuse for having been abused and enslaved